Archive For December, 2012

Today saw the government give the green light to Fracking in the UK following last year’s two earth tremors in Lancashire that were blamed on the initial gas extraction tests. The film Gasland documented how drinking water was contaminated and various damaging health effects, including cancer, were emerging across the US due to Fracking.

August 2006 saw the first Climate Camp set up. It targeted the Drax coal-fired power station at Selby in Yorkshire, to highlight the energy industry’s dependency on fossil fuel to create electricity. Two rushes are now on the Reportdigital.co.uk online library.